If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

It’s a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn’t support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, ‚Well, yeah,‘ but you start to think, ‚Why not, though?‘ What makes one more valuable than another?

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

It’s useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

What I’m trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

We do not know what the rules of the game are; all we are allowed to do is to watch the playing. Of course, if we watch long enough, we may eventually catch on to a few of the rules. The rules of the game are what we mean by fundamental physics.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

I believe that there are many herbs and many trees that are worth much in Europe for dyes and for medicines; but I do not know, and this causes me great sorrow. Arriving at this cape, I found the smell of the trees and flowers so delicious that it seemed the pleasantest thing in the world.

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource – the minds of our children.

It’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

If a subject excites us, if it stirs our deepest curiosity, or if we have to learn because the stakes are high, we pay much more attention. What we absorb sinks in.

I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

What’s important in Libya is, first of all, it has a good deal of oil. A lot of the country is unexplored; there may be a lot more. And it’s very high-quality oil, so very valuable.

Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.

We’ve got to dumb America up again.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way – by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

Exploration by real people inspires us.

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it.

Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.

I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown.

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.

However, because Britain is young and exciting, I did show my second line here once or twice.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

One thing I’ve always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they’ll tell you, ‚We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.‘

Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don’t speak the language and haven’t been before – that’s really satisfying to me. I like that.

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

You don’t read in your own field. You read in that field when you’re young, so that you can learn.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘

Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.

Every movie I make teaches me something. That’s why I keep making them.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.